Quotes of: Great-genius Keyword

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Marston Morse

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Matthew McConaughey

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Madame de Stael

I am not a genius but I approach every situation with love.

Debasish Mridha

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

George Sand

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Isaac D'Israeli

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

Clive Thompson

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

Jerry Lewis

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

Lisa Whelchel

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E. B. White

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Horace

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Josh Billings

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Edward Gibbon

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

E. T. A. Hoffmann